Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
IGOR STRAVINSKYGood composers don’t borrow, they steal.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.
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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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One’s belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one’s conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but we felt the same way twenty years ago and today we know we weren’t always right.
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I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one’s self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
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Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don’t like, it’s always by Villa Lobos?
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